These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.

I. More Than an Animal Movable Beasts: The Manifold Implications of Early Germanic Animal Imagery Stephen O. Glosecki The Truculent Toad in the Middle Ages Mary E. Robbins The Human Animals of Medieval Fables Joyce E. Salisbury Parodic Animal Physicians from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts David A. Sprunger II. Another Look at the Physiologus Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the Physiologus of Theobaldus Leslie Kordecki On the Question of a Physiologus Tradition in Emblematic Art and Writing Dietmar Peil III. Neither Man nor Beast The Werewolf as Eiron: Freedom and Comedy in William of Palerne Norman Hinton Gargoyles: Animal Imagery and Artistic Individuality in Medieval ArtJanetta Rebold Benton ,Effigies Amicitiae...veritas inimicitiae: Antifeminism in the Iconography of the Woman-Headed Serpent in Medieval and Renaissance Art and LiteratureNona C. Flores Notes on Contributors Index